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Digest of Federal Grants with Faith-Based and Community Organization Eligibility
The grant opportunities this week for community and faith-based organizations are through programs administered by the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Interior, and Justice, and by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Potential applicants should be aware that some grant programs require specific technical expertise, or experience in particular foreign countries. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children and Families Qualified faith-based and other organizations are invited to apply for the Child Care and Early Education Research Connections grant. Child Care and Early Education Research Connections (CCEERC) is a national research knowledge management and support system for the child care and early education field. The purpose of this program announcement is to award a grant to operate CCEERC for five years. The CCEERC will work to support family economic self-sufficiency and child care quality for families with children ages 0-12 or with special needs by fostering a child care and early education knowledge management and support system. CCEERC is intended to be responsive to the needs of the Child Care and Development Fund program by clearly addressing child care as a support to working families and quality of care in all settings, with a particular focus on children in low-income families. CCEERC has also expanded to integrate research in areas with clear benefit to the CCDF program, including research related to Head Start, and, increasingly, pre-kindergarten. These are important areas of child care and early education, and it is an expectation that the CCEERC will continue to develop in response to the child care and early education research and policy fields. Activities include: operating an interactive website through which the public can gain easy access to the research database, datasets, and other related information; maintain and further develop a research database consisting of research reports, summaries, and other related documents designed for end-users of research, which includes related metadata elements and other technical features; maintain a data archive of datasets from major child care, Head Start, and early education research and evaluation studies; provide technical assistance and support system to improve quality of data, assist researchers in developing analytic skills and knowledge of major child care, Head Start, and early education datasets that can be accessed through Research Connections, facilitate collaboration, and create a stronger research infrastructure; and conduct ongoing collaboration activities. A letter of intent should be submitted by April 14, 2008 and full applications are due May 13, 2008. A single successful applicant will be awarded up to $1.5 million for the first 12-month budget period. The project period is five years. The full announcement can be found at Qualified faith-based and other organizations are invited to apply for the Child Care Research Scholars grant. Funds for Child Care Research Scholars grants are available to support dissertation research on child care policy issues in partnership with State Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) lead agencies. Partnerships between the graduate student, his/her mentor and the CCDF lead agency are essential to ensure the research will be policy-relevant, is responsive to the changing needs of low-income families, and is the foundation that fosters skills necessary to build the graduate student's career trajectory of successful partnership-building and contributions to the policy and scientific communities. For the purposes of this year's grants, low-income working families include families receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), families who have transitioned off the TANF program, or low-income working parents at risk of needing TANF benefits. Grant funds are to be used to directly support graduate students as a way of encouraging the conduct of child care policy research. Along with supporting the students' training and professional development as researchers, these grants contribute to the knowledge base about best approaches to delivering services to diverse, low-income families and their children. The proposed research project may include independent studies conducted by the student or a well-defined portion of a larger study being conducted by the Principal Investigator holding a faculty position or senior research position. The graduate student must have primary responsibility for the proposed study described in the application, which should clearly distinguish between the student's portion of the research activities and those of the larger project. A letter of intent should be submitted by April 14, 2008 and full applications are due May 13, 2008. A total of $150,000 will be awarded to 4-6 grants with maximum individual award amounts of $30,000. The full announcement can be found at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Qualified faith-based and other organizations are invited to apply for the Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy Education and Outreach Initiative grant. The purpose of the program is to develop and implement a coordinated national education and outreach initiative for Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy (DBMD). Education activities involving DBMD will be developed for, and disseminated to target audiences, including healthcare providers, individuals who have DBMD and their families, and underserved populations. The recipient will collaborate with national and international organizations and stakeholders in the muscular dystrophy community to develop education and outreach activities serving applications that include, but are not limited to, expanding awareness of DBMD for all audiences listed above, increasing an understanding of diagnostic and healthcare management issues by pediatricians and other clinical primary health care providers, and improving utilization of services to decrease morbidity and mortality and optimize health and well-being throughout an individual’s lifespan. Evaluation of the quality and relevance of educational and outreach activities is required. The application deadline is May 13, 2008. A single award of $2,120,391 will be awarded for a three-year project. For a link to the full announcement please view here Qualified faith-based and other organizations are invited to apply for the National Network for Tobacco Control and Prevention grant. For this program announcement, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has chosen to establish six networks that will develop a consortium of national networks to expand the science of tobacco control within populations experiencing tobacco-related disparities. The consortium of national networks will facilitate a process by which network participants will inform the tobacco prevention community about: the depth of industry targeting; the gaps in data used to describe the burden of tobacco; and strategies to implement proven or promising interventions in specific populations. Each Network will build capacity in communities by recruiting individuals and organizations to facilitate learning and information sharing across and within network participants. The population groups that are the focus for this Cooperative Agreement were identified as a result of the scientific evidence demonstrating these populations continue to experience significant tobacco-related disparities, and include: African American; American Indian/Alaskan Native; Asian American/Pacific Islander; and Hispanic/Latino. Only one award per specific population will be made. Awards will also be made to one organization that proposes to address low socio-economic status groups and to one organization that can make a compelling argument to fund a national organization to support tobacco use prevention efforts for a specific population using quantitative and qualitative data to support the need for a National Network. One of the organizations will be selected for funding to maintain a central website that contains contact information, description of materials, calendar of events, and information about the consortium of National Networks that will be beneficial to all the networks and other partners of the National Tobacco Control Program. The application deadline is April 21, 2008. A total of $ 2.5 million will be awarded for six grants. Individual award amounts will be between $ 300,000 and $400,000. Funding for the organization maintaining a central website will be an additional $50,000 to $100,000. A link to the full announcement can be found here Office of Public Health and Science Qualified faith-based and other organizations are invited to apply for the Adolescent Family Life Research grant. The purpose of this grant is to survey, review and assess Title XX Adolescent Family Life (AFL) funded research to assist the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) in developing a new AFL research agenda that is directly applicable to prevention and care demonstration projects also supported through the AFL program. The AFL program supports two types of demonstration projects: prevention demonstration projects that provide services to young adolescents to prevent adolescent premarital sexual activity; and care projects that provide services to pregnant and parenting adolescents in an effort to ameliorate the negative consequences of adolescent childbearing. The AFL program is also authorized to support research on the societal causes and consequences of adolescent premarital sexual relations, adolescent pregnancy and child rearing; to support research to identify effective services which alleviate any negative consequences of adolescent premarital sexual relations and adolescent childbearing for the parents, the child, and their families; and to encourage and provide for the dissemination of results, findings and information from programs and research projects relating to adolescent premarital sexual relations, pregnancy, and parenthood. The OPA would now like to review this body of AFL funded research systematically and then, taking into account what has already been done, develop a new research agenda to build on past work and the questions that arose from it, as well as explore more current or emerging topics that have not yet been addressed. Letters of intent should be received by April 30, 2008 and the full application is due May 15, 2008. Approximately $100,000 will be awarded to a single successful applicant. The full announcement can be found at Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration Qualified faith-based and other organizations are invited to apply for the Grants to Expand Substance Abuse Treatment in Adult Criminal Justice Populations. This program is designed to address gaps in substance abuse treatment services for adult individuals involved with the criminal justice system by supporting rapid and strategic responses to demands for substance abuse (including alcohol and drug) treatment services in communities with serious, emerging drug problems as well as communities with innovative solutions to unmet needs. The purpose of this program is to expand and or/enhance the community’s ability to provide a comprehensive, integrated, and community-based response to a targeted, well-documented substance abuse treatment capacity problem and/or improve the quality and intensity of services for adult individuals in the community who are involved with the criminal justice system. The targeted population of the Adult Criminal Justice Treatment (ACJT) grant is adult individuals who are under some form of the judicial or community justice supervision and who are screened and assessed as substance-involved, and/or have been diagnosed with a substance abuse disorder or co-occurring disorder of substance abuse and mental health. These individuals must be under the supervision of the judiciary or community justice/corrections agencies (such as probation, parole, community corrections). All applications are due May 2, 2008. Anticipated total funding is up to $2.7 million for up to seven grants. The anticipated amount of each award is $400,000. The project period is up to three years. A link to the full announcement can be found at Qualified faith-based and other organizations are invited to apply for the Knowledge Dissemination Conference Grants. The grant will support conferences to disseminate knowledge about practices within the mental health services and substance abuse prevention and treatment fields and to integrate that knowledge into real-world practice as effectively and efficiently as possible. Conferences must be related to substance abuse (including abuse of alcohol, tobacco, prescription and illicit drugs) and mental illness prevention, early intervention, and treatment innovations and service delivery. A conference is a regional workshop or any other organized and formal meeting lasting one or more days where persons assemble to exchange information about the science and practice of substance abuse and/or mental health identification, treatment, and prevention. Conferences must be open to a broad constituency of interests and skills that include providers, practitioners, researchers, advocates, consumers, family members, and the general public. The closing date for applications is May 30, 2008. The maximum grant award is $50,000 for a 12-month project period. SAMHSA anticipates making four grants. The full announcement can be found at DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service Applications are now being accepted for the Save America’s Treasures grant. Historic properties and collections associated with active religious organizations are eligible to apply for grants. The Federal Save America’s Treasures program is one of the largest and most successful grant programs for the protection of our nation’s endangered and irreplaceable and endangered cultural heritage. Grants are available for preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and historic structures and sites. Intellectual and cultural artifacts include artifacts, collections, documents, sculpture, and works of art. Historic structures and sites include historic districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects. Applications are due by May 20, 2008. An expected seventy five awards will be available totaling $11 million. The average anticipated award will range from $25,000 to $700,000. The full announcement can be found at DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Bureau of Justice Assistance Qualified faith-based and other organizations are invited to apply for the Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Training and Technical Assistance Program grant. The successful applicant will deliver training and technical assistance to state agencies to assist them with developing effective strategies for planning, implementing, or enhancing prescription drug monitoring programs. The successful applicant will have extensive expertise in the following areas: 1) providing proactive, comprehensive, user-friendly technical assistance services; 2) developing uniform protocols for the assessment and delivery of technical assistance, as well as tracking, evaluation, and follow-up; 3) using technical assistance strategies that include, but are not limited to, developing publications, teleconferencing, peer-to-peer consultations, onsite technical assistance, and ongoing technical assistance by phone and e-mail; and 4) planning and hosting national and regional conferences. Applications are due by May 15, 2008. One or more grants for a total of up to $670,000 will be awarded for a project period of 12 months. The full announcement can be found at Office for Victims of Crime Qualified faith-based and other organizations are invited to apply for the Counseling and Faith-Based Services for Crime Victims in This solicitation provides support for the implementation of an innovative program to improve the delivery of counseling services to crime victims by faith-based organizations. This strategy will be achieved by establishing and improving the partnership between faith-based organizations, spiritual leaders, traditional healers, and victim service programs in AI/AN communities as well as by developing Best Practices/Successful Strategies that can be replicated in other underserved communities. Counseling services should be made available to all victims, regardless of faith or religious belief. The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) will continue to support those projects that address the needs of unserved and underserved victims, particularly those victimized by crimes such as child abuse, sexual assault, homicide, elder abuse, driving while intoxicated, and gang violence. The deadline for applications is April 14, 2008. $750,000 is available to fund one grant for one year. The full announcement can be found here Qualified faith-based and other organizations are invited to apply for the Intensive Case Management for Family Members of Homicide Victims Grant. One successful applicant will be selected from an urban high-crime community and one will be selected from a rural community. Applicants should clearly identify their status as either urban high-crime or a rural community and provide documentation to support this designation. Applicants should describe the specific jurisdictional and geographical boundaries of the designated community, and document the existence of high levels of crime in their community by using indicators such as crime rate and the number of homicides. In the first 18-month period of the project, successful applicants will develop or enhance a comprehensive service strategy for services to family members after a homicide. The service strategy must include the provision of intensive case management for all members of the victim’s immediate family, and any other family member or friend of the victim who is requesting services. Intensive case management will include conducting service needs assessments, service planning, provision of information, assistance and referral, and follow-up with victims regarding services received. Services should also include the coordination of culturally and linguistically appropriate services, individual and group counseling, support groups, criminal justice advocacy, court accompaniment, and assistance with crime victim compensation. Depending upon funding availability in 2009 and 2010, phases two and three of this project will include: continued implementation and institutionalization of the model program through the development of written protocols, procedures, and memoranda of understanding; development of technical assistance resources; and replication of the comprehensive service model in several communities. The number and locations of the pilot sites will be determined based on future project strategy and funding availability. In phase three, each grantee will administer subgrants to urban high-crime or rural sites, provide programmatic and fiscal oversight to the pilot sites, and provide training and technical assistance to ensure that the replicated sites have what is needed to implement the program successfully in each target area. All applications are due April 24, 2008. Two grants will be awarded for up to $200,000 each for the first phase of the project. The project period for the first phase is eighteen months. Funding in 2009 and 2010 is contingent upon meeting preceding year objectives and availability of funds. The full announcement with additional details can be found at Qualified faith-based and other organizations are invited to apply for the T&TA Counseling and Faith-Based Services for Crime Victims in Indian County grants. The purpose of this competitive award is to support the award recipients of the Counseling & Faith-Based Services for Crime Victims in Indian Country grant program. This objective will be achieved by providing culturally appropriate training and technical assistance (T&TA) to enhance the development and expansion of organizations’ capabilities to provide counseling services to crime victims. The T&TA provider will ensure the adequacy of services to crime victims and will support the creation of collaborative relationships among faith-based organizations and local victim assistance programs in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. The T&TA will improve the delivery of faith-based counseling services to crime victims by establishing partnerships between faith-based organizations, spiritual leaders, traditional healers, and victim services programs in AI/AN communities. Counseling services should be made available to all victims, regardless of faith or religious beliefs. The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) will support those projects that address the needs of unserved and underserved victims, particularly those victimized by crimes such as child abuse, sexual assault, homicide, elder abuse, driving while intoxicated, and gang violence. The deadline for applications is April 14, 2008. Up to $500,000 will be made available. The number of grantees is subject to change. The full announcement can be found at UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Qualified faith-based and other organizations are invited to apply for the Housing Partnerships Support Projects (HPSP) in Uzbekistan Grant. The successful applicant will strengthen capacities of regional housing associations, promote market services in the housing sector and the formation of resident controlled housing associations, and assist local partners in developing recommendations and legislative amendments for further reforms in the housing sector of Uzbekistan. Wherever appropriate, the Recipient will involve local governments in trainings and discussions with Regional Housing Associations and other non-governmental partners, thus facilitating improvement of lines of communication between housing associations and local governments, as well as with other governmental partners, and facilitating development of joint projects. Applications for this announcement are due April 7, 2008. USAID intends to provide up to $800,000 in total funding over a two year period for one grant. The full announcement can be found at Qualified faith-based and other organizations are invited to apply for the Linking Poor Rural Health to Microfinance and Markets grant to support asset creation and enhance livelihood options of the rural poor through the promotion of market linkages and increased access to microfinance opportunities. The USAID program is intended to build on past experiences and contribute towards the goals of the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia’s (GFDRE) Food Security Strategy to improve household resiliency and food security. This USAID program will support and advance those households targeted within the GFDRE’s Food Security Program areas implementing the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and Other Food Security Programs (OFSPs) in four regions (Tigray, Amhara, Oromiya, and SNNP) as well as rural Harari and Dire Dawa administrations. The PSNP was established with the idea that other components, such as household credit packages, other food security programs, and other longer-term development actions, would be in place to ensure that households become sustainably food secure. This RFA intends to demonstrate asset creation and adoption of market-led livelihood options for the persistently poor through sustainable links to markets and microfinance services resulting in increased assets at the house hold level and therefore more resilient households. Applications for this announcement are due April 16, 2008. A total of $12 million will be awarded for a three-year project. The full announcement can be found at Qualified faith-based and other organizations are invited to apply for the Public Sector HIV/AIDS Workplace Program grant for activities in Uganda. Building on activities currently being supported through USAID funded Education Sector Workplace AIDS Program, this successful applicant(s) will continue to support the education sector HIV/AIDS activities to reach national coverage as well as support the roll-out of workplace HIV/AIDS programs to additional sectors. Project activities include: foster the development of a conducive and enabling sectoral environment that will ensure availability, integration and sustainability of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment services within each sector supported; increase the number of employees in the selected sectors that access and utilize HIV/AIDS services including prevention, HIV counseling and testing, and care and treatment through linkages, networks and referral systems, with priority placed on leveraging and facilitating existing service providers; and increase access of people living with HIV/AIDS, reached through this initiative, and their families to wrap around services such as family planning, nutritional programs, water and sanitation activities and income generating initiatives by leveraging activities through effective partnerships with U.S. government and non-U.S. government programs. Applications for this announcement are due April 14, 2008. USAID intends to provide approximately $10 million in funding to be allocated over the five-year period to support these activities. The full announcement can be found at Qualified faith-based and other organizations are invited to apply for the RESPOND Grant. RESPOND stands for Responding to the Need for Family Planning through Expanded Contraceptive Choices and Program Services. The purpose of this agreement is to increase the use of reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) services, with a focus on the informed and voluntary use of long-acting and permanent methods LAPMs (Long-acting and permanent methods of contraception). The successful project will strengthen global learning and application of state of the art approaches to expand commitment, support and programming for LAPMs and apply global learning to generate and sustain interest and commitment within a country for RH/FP services with a holistic focus on LAPMs through increasing demand, strengthening service delivery systems, integrating RH/FP with other programs, and building a supportive environment to increase the use of LAPMs and other RH/FP services. For additional details, please refer to section III of the full program announcement. Approximately $240 million will be awarded over five years. Applications for this announcement are due May 8, 2008. A link to the full announcement can be found at Qualified faith-based and other applicants are invited to apply for the Uganda Indoor Residual Spraying Malaria Activity grant. In June 2005, the United States Government announced that Uganda had been selected to be included in a five year, $1.2 billion initiative to rapidly scale-up malaria prevention and treatment interventions in high burden countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The goal of the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) is to reduce malaria-related mortality by 50% in vulnerable groups-children under five, and pregnant women. This will be accomplished by achieving 85% coverage of these groups with four key interventions: indoor residual spraying (IRS), insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs), intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp), and artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT). The PMI is a USAID-led initiative that is implemented in partnership with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This grant will support projects that: plan and implement indoor residual spraying programs in collaboration with the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP); and monitor and evaluate the indoor residual spraying program. Activities include: improve the capacity of planning, management and implementation of indoor residual spraying by the NMCP; increase the proportion of the targeted houses sprayed with residual insecticide; conduct appropriate IRS-specific IEC activities prior to any spraying campaign; build capacity of Uganda NMCP to implement future IRS operations in Uganda; Provide the appropriate program monitoring and evaluation of the IRS program; conduct IRS in compliance with government environmental regulations; entomological monitoring done in support for IRS campaigns; and build capacity of Uganda NMCP to monitor and evaluate future IRS operations in Uganda. The closing date for this application is April 30, 2008. Subject to the availability of funds, USAID intends to grant and provide approximately $35,000,000 in total funding to be allocated over a three year period. The full announcement can be found at http://www07.grants.gov/search/downloadAtt.do;jsessionid=HpLpv7hHxNq5QzT |
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